World Apr 21

Well, I'm still in London. The sky is still bright blue and beautiful, the weather is unseasonably fine for April, and the airspace over Britain is finally streaked with the occasional airplane after a five-day shut down of…

Health Apr 01

Maybe you're old enough to remember when people first began dying of a disease that caused a catastrophic breakdown in the body's ability to fight disease. Young people were being killed off by infections the body normally kept in check…

Health Mar 29

When you're in a four-wheel drive vehicle threading its way through rocky mountain passes in the Andes, it's hard to imagine getting around any other way. But people do. Our driver slows on a narrow curve to make way for…

Economy Mar 16

Old Peru: bloated state sector, runaway borrowing, hyperinflation, presided over by President Alan Garcia. New Peru: trimmed-down state sector, privatization, solid currency, presided over by President Alan Garcia. Peru was once a stereotypical victim of multiple Latin American diseases. Poorly…

World Mar 12

Thousands of workers who labored at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks may be eligible to split up to $657.5 million in settlement money for damage to their health from…

World Jan 29

Sometimes, the best things happen in the news business when you just happen to be at an optimal place, at an optimal moment. Today the NewsHour team was starting to shoot a story on the struggle to get the Haitian…

World Jan 26

Here's a crash course in Haitian economics: Stores in the country's biggest city are closed, and don't appear ready to open very soon. Their employees and the employees of thousands of enterprises around the city haven't been to work…

World Jan 25

What constitutes good news in the midst of a tragedy like Haiti's? Today the NewsHour team headed out to Haiti's massive central plateau to see an operation that has stretched its modest resources to fit an oversized disaster. The Partners…

World Jan 24

_pap_embed_custom('news01s3976qd89',482,304,""); Ray Suarez and a team from the NewsHour are in Port-au-Prince, reporting on the aftermath of an earthquake that has ravaged the Haitian captial and turned the eyes of the world back to the story of Haiti's larger…

World Jan 23

Maybe you've been riveted by the scenes of desperation and heroism from Haiti. Maybe you've seen the bodies stacked for burial by earth- moving equipment before anonymous masses are bulldozed into a pit. The "Haiti Story" isn't just one…